Saturday, November 7, 2015

Leslie Jones

 Wagon "Taking Home His Pilgrim Bride," ready 
for parade on Duxbury's 300th Anniversary, 1937
  
 Woman, dog and gun, duck shooting, ca. 1938
  
Women and children seated next to pond, ca. 1954
  
Women on catwalk
  
Women packing apples
 
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Anders Beer Wilse

Wilse was a Norwegian photographer.

Aulestad, 1908
  
Breifond Hotel, Röldal, 9 September 1910
  
Henrik Ibsen in sled at the National Theatre, 1902
  
 Knut Hamsun and an unidentified man in a tractor, June 1929
[Knut Hamsun was a very influential and prominent author.]
  
Landaasen Turisthotel, 25 January 1928
 

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

H. Allison

Photographs by "H. Allison and Co."

A night at the opera, 1933
  
Female choir, ca. 1910
  
Musical septet with intruments and trophy, ca. 1920
  
Scene from school play, 'Humpty Dumpty', Royal School Armagh, 1931
  
Women's tennis match, ca. 1910
 

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Vintage Finland

Nylands Nation's Building on Kasarmikatu, 1908
  
Student Union Building on Itäinen Heikinkatu, 1908
  
Swedish Theatre, 1908
  
Tallberg Building on Aleksanterinkatu, 1908
  
Vilhonkatu, 1908
 

Monday, November 2, 2015

Miami University

Children with dog and pig in backyard
  
Corrine Barrett reading in her dormitory room, 1908
  
Dance performance at Oxford College May Day celebration, 1922
  
Horse drawn sleigh with passengers in front of 'Miami Steam Laundry'
  
McGuffey High School play participants, 1912
[premiering this fall on the CW]
 

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Norwegian Wedding

These photos are of a "traditional wedding in Ulvik in Hardanger [Norway] in May 1954".